David

Following up on the big decision at the Paris ICANN meeting in June to make new top level domains available, there’s lots of activity at the ICANN conference in Cairo, Egypt this week. A few of the hot topics of discussion that we are following are the applications process for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), Registry/Registrar Cross Ownership, and restructuring of the ICANN Board.

ICANN has recently published a number of updates to the implementation program for new gTLDs.

.ORG just reached another milestone in its campaign to foster a more robust and secure Internet. Beginning today, July 31, the Internet addressing system known as IPv6 will be deployed for testing, and will shortly be available for full use by registrars.

The reason that this is an important development can be explained as follows, courtesy of the Internet Society web site:

"Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are unique numeric identifiers that are needed by every device that connects to the Internet.

As the 32nd Annual ICANN meeting closes in Paris, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, continued to use this important worldwide forum to advocate policies that support the mission of .ORG to serve all worldwide .ORGs as an exemplary registry.

A highlight of the meeting was the ICANN Board’s approval of the .ORG proposal to implement Domain Name Security Extensions (“DNSSEC”). .ORG believes the implementation of DNSSEC will significantly advance the security and stability of the Domain Name System. The protection of Internet users and registrants has always been a priority for .ORG.